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by lr4444lr 3y ago
A steel-man response would be that assisted suicide is more about pain reduction, whereas experimental drugs could have terrible side effects. It isn't a convincing argument to me, because possible death avoidance is a higher level of
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
The FDA could create a standard consent form for nonapproved treatment that patients and doctors would sign, which would indemnify the physician from legal repercussions, but they don't, and they bear full blame for that. The AMA wou
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Gonna risk the downvotes and qualify that I am a parent who keeps social media away from my kids: what big tech is peddling is IMHO not on the level of addiction, carcinogenicity and all cause mortality as smoking. It's up to me to r
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Unbelievable that he can say without irony that he wants to spend his resources so that a few EA adherents survive (rather than use that money to save as many people as possible).
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
It's absolutely impossible for prison to morally absolve prisoners: most do not enter there willingly (i.e., they plead not guilty) and their entire freedom to do anything, much less make amends, is stripped away. Rehabilitation does n
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
It's not just about missing out on what you want: it's also achieving it and wondering, "is that all there is?"
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
More like running many kinds of businesses has become more hassle than its worth. Medical malpractice premiums are very high, insurance payouts are stingier, and medicine has become more capital intensive than ever as newer medicines and di
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I think we have some moral standing to blame prostitutes for STDs. Peddling oil despite its externalities because people are addicted adds to the overall world market, driving down price, in turn hampering renewables.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Up-vote for a correct diagnosis, but I disagree with your suggestion. Universities are for training with a solid theoretical foundation. How many traditional engineers actually do integrals by hand, or doctors balance an organic chemistry e
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Is running wholly separate refrigeration, AC, ovens, and other electric power negligible? Average household size in cities tends to be smaller than the suburbs. The environmental argument always clings to cars, but emissions keep improving.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Suburban residents and their leaders generally have no problem with city denizens doing what they want: no one is imposing _less_ density on cities. They could care less if you want to pack people into 100 story microapartments with buses a
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I think the term is "chumbox". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox (I.e., the icky health ads are a major category of it.) https://www.fastcompany.com/90843502/the-chumbox-is-still-th
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Why is that better? Non graduates also have loan expenses for other things, e.g. businesses or mortgages acquired sooner. You'd want to compare paychecks net of debt payments to look at workable income.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Good faith reading is that he means its risk free to the school, because they get paid up front even if the student doesn't graduate, much less earn enough to pay back his loan.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
This is really interesting, but has it outpaced inflation ? Did not see that skimming the site.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Why, because it figured out sentiment groupings of words and phrases? There's lots of humor and tragedy from writers of eras past that just don't really land well with modern audiences unless they've studied and acclimated th
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
America is usually the healthiest patient in the hospice, economically speaking.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
It frankly just tastes weird. I can't understand why people want to eat it. Americans need to retrain their palette to not need a sweet deluge every day, and just enjoy heavy sugar items as an occasional treat. And I say this as someon
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I dunno. We are several months out after the major layoffs. Maybe some very recent bad decisions were made internally that pared back too far, but I think Musk has long since been proven correct that the core platform could function on a fr
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
You'll have to pardon me if I find it highly dubious that given the option to attend with no guarantee of student housing for a secondary set of matriculants that thousands upon thousands more would not still _jump_ at the opportunity
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
This always barks up the wrong tree: why, as Peter Thiel asked, haven't colleges with decades or centuries long track records of successful graduates been interested in expanding their student body 2,3 or even 10x over a phase in perio
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
This is good, but it also leaves out that the Civil Rights Act legislation made this kind of "thumb on the other side of the scale" for "disadvantaged races" patently illegal. Affirmative Action was, therefore, a recogni
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Most superlatives in English are interchangeably "most X" and "Xest".
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
> You ever look at a GitHub project and complain about how someone else used the same variable name as you, but had the gall to assign a different value to it? Without context? Literally, never.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
As the OP, I agree 100%!
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I've heard. Just doing my small part to point out the obvious, and and melt a little snow as this ball keeps picking up mass on its downward roll.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I'm not poo-pooing that idea. The issue is the political (mis/dis/ab)use of language in all contexts. This is Nature journal, for goddakes, using the term "man" in a completely obvious biological convention to discu
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
The company has to pay their labor expenses AND profit. Not just cover claims.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I'm not an agronomist, but even back then, couldn't grain be stored for a year or two to buffer a disaster?
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
My shrink pointed out in a conversation once as a tangent that Hamlet was not-so-subtly a psychoanalytic masterpiece: Hamlet watches his uncle carry out the Oedipal fantasy of killing his father and marrying his mother, and is haunted by a

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